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"For more than two decades, Hennepin County has paid the Salvation Army to feed, house, and supervise 300 homeless adults a day in the Army's Harbor Light Shelter Minneapolis ... But since early 1998, the county has been knowingly doing business with a homeless shelter plagued by lax security and inefficient management. According to documents obtained by City Pages and scores of interviews, problems at Harbor Light include incompetent staff, relentless turnover, woefully inadequate security, on-site drug dealing, and at least one incident of rape. "
Tags: nonprofit; emergency shelter contract; social services; transitional housing; detox; Hennepin County; National Coalition for the Homeless; NCH; Salvation Army; rape; lawsuit; ministers; religion; Christianity
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Parade Magazine looks at the growing number of homeless people; finds more than one-fifth of the homeless in the United States are employed, but their earnings never amount to enough to pay rent; also finds nearly 500,000 children are homeless, Jan. 10, 1988.
Tags: Whittemore NCH